Snapshot

Capture and preserve the exact state of your Instances and volumes at any point in time. Instantly restore from snapshots after failures, roll back unwanted changes, and clone environments for testing — with reliable and cost-effective storage. Built for:

Snapshot Price

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Instance Snapshot

Capture the complete state of your Instances at any point in time. Instantly restore from a snapshot after a failed update, roll back to a previous configuration, or clone an environment for testing — with fast recovery and minimal storage overhead.

Name	Storage Type	Cloud Provider	$/hr	$/mo
Snapshot	Standard	Cloud Stack	$0.000083	$0.060756

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Block Storage Snapshot

Preserve the exact state of your block storage volumes with incremental snapshots. Protect persistent data from accidental deletion or corruption, restore volumes to a previous state, and create new volumes from snapshots for rapid environment duplication.

Name	Storage Type	Cloud Provider	$/hr	$/mo
Snapshot	Standard	Cloud Stack	$0.000083	$0.060756

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Frequently asked questions

An Instance Snapshot captures the full disk state of your Instance at a specific point in time, including the operating system, installed software, configurations, and data. It is stored in secondary storage and can be used to restore or clone the instance at any time.

No. GCX Kcloud supports live snapshots, meaning your Instance can remain running during the process. For databases or applications with active writes, we recommend a brief flush or quiesce to ensure data consistency.

Yes. Any Instance Snapshot can be used as a base image to launch a new Instance. This is useful for cloning environments, scaling identical instances, or recovering from a failure by spinning up a clean restore point.

A Block Storage Snapshot captures the exact state of a block storage volume at a point in time. It can be used to restore a volume to a previous state, duplicate a volume, or migrate data to a different instance — all without any downtime.

Yes. Block Storage Snapshots can be taken while the volume is attached and active. For write-heavy workloads such as databases, briefly flushing writes before snapshotting ensures the captured state is fully consistent.

Yes. Any snapshot can be used to provision a new block storage volume of equal or larger size. This is useful for duplicating volumes across instances, promoting a backup to live storage, or testing changes on a copy.

You are billed for the incremental storage each snapshot consumes, not the full volume size. Since only changed blocks are stored after the first snapshot, costs remain predictable even for large volumes.